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Essays 61 - 90
In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...
would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...
has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...
do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...
This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...
In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...
he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...
In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...
negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....
In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...
In this paper of fifteen pages it is Plato that is accused of treason in this new version of 'Apology' and must defend himself aga...
In 5 pages the roots of justice are exposed in these respecitve works in which an imaginary dialogue between Moses, Mohammed, and ...
is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...
still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...
us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...
knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...
This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at American and Greek democracies. The Republic of Plato is also presented in summary-f...
offer a profusion of pleasures... injustice pays better than justice" (364b). Next, Socrates appeared to shift gears and direct t...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
In six pages this paper analyzes The Republic by Plato in a consideration of how women's roles are portrayed. There is 1 source c...